Technical Potentials of the New Media

Technical Potentials of the New Media

• Costs of production dropping: makes media creation more accessible ( digital camera and access to the net)
• Costs of distribution down
• Interactive// less hierarchical
• Faster…more global

The Internet

• What: a vast network of high speed wires and satellite relays linking computers worldwide
• No central hub: thousands of computer nodes ( it is highly distributed)
• Uses a type of switching that is hard to trace: designed after WW2 in the RAND corporation to avoid worldwide military attack
• Now used for: email, commerce, chat lines,file sharing etc.
• Sometimes synonmous with on line world